34. Jesus said, “My food is to do what the One who sent me wants me to do. My food is to finish the work that he gave me to do.
35. You say, ‘Four more months to wait before we gather the grain.’ But I tell you, open your eyes. Look at the fields that are ready for harvesting now.
36. Even now, the one who harvests the crop is being paid. He is gathering crops for eternal life. So now the one who plants can be happy along with the one who harvests.
37. It is true when we say, ‘One person plants, but another harvests the crop.’
38. I sent you to harvest a crop that you did not work for. Others did the work, and you get the profit from their work.”
39. Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus. They believed because of what the woman said: “He told me everything I have ever done.”
40. The Samaritans came to Jesus and begged him to stay with them. So he stayed there two days.
41. Many more believed because of the things he said.
42. They said to the woman, “First we believed in Jesus because of what you told us. But now we believe because we heard him ourselves. We know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
43. Two days later, Jesus left and went to Galilee.
44. (Jesus had said before that a prophet is not respected in his own country.)
45. When Jesus arrived in Galilee, the people there welcomed him. They had seen all the things he did at the Passover Feast in Jerusalem. They had been at the Passover Feast, too.
46. Jesus went to visit Cana in Galilee again. This is where Jesus had changed the water into wine. One of the king’s important officers lived in the city of Capernaum. This man’s son was sick.
47. The man heard that Jesus had come from Judea and was now in Galilee. He went to Jesus and begged him to come to Capernaum and heal his son. His son was almost dead.
48. Jesus said to him, “You people must see signs and miracles before you will believe in me.”
49. The officer said, “Sir, come before my child dies.”
50. Jesus answered, “Go. Your son will live.”The man believed what Jesus told him and went home.
51. On the way the man’s servants came and met him. They told him, “Your son is well.”